xthexder
@xthexder@l.sw0.com
- Comment on Don't let the smoke out 1 week ago:
Grammar is the least of your concern if you’re letting the magic smoke out
- Comment on Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification for their own Works With programs 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s just a very unfortunate auto-cropped thumbnail
- Comment on As a novice at soldering, I now have an opinion about single-sided vs. double-sided breadboards 1 month ago:
I guess the stuff I buy is an extra tier above then, because I definitely only spring for the platted through-hole double sided boards. I’ve cut little sections of my supply to use in various projects.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 2 months ago:
If you are the CA, you can sign a new certificate yourself for google.com and the browser will accept it. It’s effectively MITM for any certificate. The browser has no way of knowing there’s 2 “valid” certs at once, and in fact that is allowed regardless (multiple servers with different instances of the SSL cert is very common now)
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 2 months ago:
Well, it’s difficult, as it should be, because if you control a certificate in the active chain of trust of browsers, you can hack pretty much anything you want.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 2 months ago:
Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
Maybe just use percentages instead of these weird units. 0.2 MHh per hour is just 0.2 MW, or 20%.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
You bring up heated water as a method of storage, and it reminds me of a neighborhood in Alberta, Canada that uses geothermal + solar heated water storage for 52 homes. They’ve been able to successfully heat the entire neighborhood with only solar over the winter since 2015.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community
There’s a huge number of new storage technologies being developed, and the fact that some even work on a seasonal basis for long term storage is amazing.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Definitely dangerous, but I’m less scared of that one. I’ve got detectors for that, and that’s more of a “go peacefully in your sleep” kind of danger.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Well, now this is on my list of invisible things that scare me:
- Radiation
- Methanol fires
- Supercritical steam jets
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
babe
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
That doesn’t sound like a self-driving car to me.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
The driver’s tweet says it kept going, but I didn’t find the full video.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
Whether or not a human should stop seems beside the point. Autopilot should immediately get the driver to take back control if something unexpected happens, and stop if the driver doesn’t take over. Getting into an actual collision and just continuing to drive is absolutely the wrong behavior for a self-driving car.
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 2 months ago:
I had to double-take since in Python a common alternative to
trick ? treat : notreatis(trick and treat) or notreatBut I don’t think this translates to overlapping circles very well. “trick implies treat” is only defined inside the trick circle, outside is undefined if treat is true or not.
- Comment on ... 2 months ago:
I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what counts as science, and that’s okay.
Your methodology seems to imply a valid scientific experiment must be sufficiently rigorous as to improve on the current scientific consensus. And I do partially agree, it’s a waste of time collecting data that’s just going to be worse than previously collected, more controlled experiments.
By my philosophy is a lot looser. To quote Adam Savage: “The only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down”
- Comment on ... 2 months ago:
I’m explicitly arguing that you can separate the two. I can perform a completely independent experiments in my house. For example:
I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes. I then measure how long my stove takes to boil that water. I can then record these results to inform my future cooking and water boiling experiments. I don’t have to publish the results anywhere or even talk with another person, yet I’ve still used the scientific method. I’m not a professional scientist, but I am an amateur one.
- Comment on ... 2 months ago:
I’d agree for the result to be useful to society, the science should be published. But science can still be useful to an individual without sharing. I use the scientific method regularly in my daily life for mundane things, and often it’s just not worth the time to communicate to others because the situation is unique to me. I write it down for myself later, which doesn’t make the science any less valid.
- Comment on ... 2 months ago:
I’d argue the scientific method does not have to include multiple people at all. All it is, is the process of coming up with a hypothesis, designing an experiment to check that hypothesis, and then repeating while trying to control for external factors (like your own personal bias). You can absolutely do science on your own.
The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science. You can come up with better hypotheses by reviewing other people’s science, but that doesn’t mean when a flat earther ignores all current consensus and does their own tests that it isn’t still science.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 2 months ago:
There is however over 200 Cybertrucks for rent on Turo. I guess all the owners got bored of them already.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
If you look at how Gorillas kind of walk around on their fists, it definitely makes sense that there’s some evolutionary benefit to the knuckle shape. It doesn’t have to be related to hitting things either. It’s easiest to support yourself with a straight wrist, like if you’re holding a branch, vs putting your palm flat is a lot more stress on your wrist.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 2 months ago:
I’ve done basically this in the past by encrypting a text file with GPG. But a real password manager will integrate with your browser and helps prevent getting phished by verifying the domain before entering a password. It also syncs across all my devices, which my GPG file only worked well on my desktop.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 2 months ago:
Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.
That’s kind of a wild takeaway… Personally I like not having to grow my own food. And a huge amount of efficiency is gained with large scale farming compared to small farms or personal growing.
Unsustainable subsidies aren’t okay, and we should strive for more environmentally friendly farms, but farming itself is not one of our problems.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 3 months ago:
I returned a bunch of smart outlets I got at Home Depot after I got fed up with waiting for the app to launch just to turn a light on or off.
I also don’t want to have to talk to it, so switching to Home Assistant with Zigbee button remotes has made my experience so much better. And on the plus side, everything still works when the power or Internet goes out because I’ve got it on battery backup. - Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
Yeah, multiple languages or even putting an ê or something in an English password to mix things up. It makes perfect sense to allow.
It’s a good thing they require each codepoint to be treated as one character for the length limit, since “🤔🤣” is 8 bytes on its own, but the unicode prefix is trivial to guess.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
Storing credit card data has its own set of strict security rules that need to be followed. It’s also the credit card company’s problem, not yours, as long as you dispute any fraudulent charges early enough.
I’m coming at this from the perspective of a developer. A user can always use a longer password (and you should), but it’s technically possible to make an 8 character password secure, thus the NIST recommend minimum.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
Newer password hashing algorithms have ways of combatting this. For example, argon2 will use a large amount of memory and CPU and can be tuned for execution time. So theoretically you could configure it to take 0.5 seconds per hash calculation and use 1 GB or more of ram. That’s going to be extremely difficult to bruteforce 8 characters.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
And here I wrote an AutoHotKey script to type out my clipboard a character at a time so I can paste stuff into this remote desktop software I’m using that doesn’t support paste…
It’s kinda necessary when the server’s unlock password is 256 characters long and completely random.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
Interesting that unicode support is suggested. Emoji passwords could be fun.
- Comment on Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report 3 months ago:
I’ve been told in the past you shouldn’t make public posts with your travel plans. You’re broadcasting that thieves can break in to your house and clean it out without worrying when you’ll be back.
Just tell your friends/family directly